diff --git a/Doxygen/Examples.AvocadoDB/rest_create-document-new-named-collection b/Doxygen/Examples.AvocadoDB/rest_create-document-new-named-collection
index 6731e1ac8b..2a1352cea8 100644
--- a/Doxygen/Examples.AvocadoDB/rest_create-document-new-named-collection
+++ b/Doxygen/Examples.AvocadoDB/rest_create-document-new-named-collection
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-> curl --data @- -X POST --dump - http://localhost:8529/document?collection=NewCollection&create=true
+> curl --data @- -X POST --dump - http://localhost:8529/document?collection=NewCollection&createCollection=true
 { "Hallo" : "World" }
 
 HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
diff --git a/RestHandler/RestDocumentHandler.cpp b/RestHandler/RestDocumentHandler.cpp
index 75678f3ba4..1ae4c622df 100644
--- a/RestHandler/RestDocumentHandler.cpp
+++ b/RestHandler/RestDocumentHandler.cpp
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ bool RestDocumentHandler::createDocument () {
   }
 
   // should we create the collection
-  string createStr = request->value("create", found);
+  string createStr = request->value("createCollection", found);
   bool create = found ? StringUtils::boolean(createStr) : false;
 
   // find and load collection given by name oder identifier
diff --git a/UnitTests/RestDocuments/rest_create-document_spec.rb b/UnitTests/RestDocuments/rest_create-document_spec.rb
index ef99460399..631e8c4711 100644
--- a/UnitTests/RestDocuments/rest_create-document_spec.rb
+++ b/UnitTests/RestDocuments/rest_create-document_spec.rb
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ describe AvocadoDB do
       end
 
       it "create the collection and the document" do
-	cmd = "/document?collection=#{@cn}&create=true"
+	cmd = "/document?collection=#{@cn}&createCollection=true"
 	body = "{ \"Hallo\" : \"World\" }"
 	doc = AvocadoDB.post(cmd, :body => body)